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diff --git a/sag-0.6.1-www/sag-0.6.1.html/c2018.html b/sag-0.6.1-www/sag-0.6.1.html/c2018.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9a793eb --- /dev/null +++ b/sag-0.6.1-www/sag-0.6.1.html/c2018.html @@ -0,0 +1,232 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//Norman Walsh//DTD DocBook HTML 1.0//EN"> +<HTML +><HEAD +><TITLE +>Managing user accounts</TITLE +><META +NAME="GENERATOR" +CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet"><LINK +REL="HOME" +TITLE="The Linux System Administrators' Guide" +HREF="book1.html"><LINK +REL="PREVIOUS" +TITLE="Shell startup" +HREF="x2008.html"><LINK +REL="NEXT" +TITLE="Creating a user" +HREF="x2031.html"></HEAD +><BODY +BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" +TEXT="#000000" +><DIV +CLASS="NAVHEADER" +><TABLE +WIDTH="100%" +BORDER="0" +CELLPADDING="0" +CELLSPACING="0" +><TR +><TH +COLSPAN="3" +ALIGN="center" +>The Linux System Administrators' Guide</TH +></TR +><TR +><TD +WIDTH="10%" +ALIGN="left" +VALIGN="bottom" +><A +HREF="x2008.html" +>Prev</A +></TD +><TD +WIDTH="80%" +ALIGN="center" +VALIGN="bottom" +></TD +><TD +WIDTH="10%" +ALIGN="right" +VALIGN="bottom" +><A +HREF="x2031.html" +>Next</A +></TD +></TR +></TABLE +><HR +ALIGN="LEFT" +WIDTH="100%"></DIV +><DIV +CLASS="CHAPTER" +><H1 +><A +NAME="AEN2018" +>Chapter 9. Managing user accounts</A +></H1 +><DIV +CLASS="TOC" +><DL +><DT +><B +>Table of Contents</B +></DT +><DT +><A +HREF="c2018.html#AEN2024" +>What's an account?</A +></DT +><DT +><A +HREF="x2031.html" +>Creating a user</A +></DT +><DT +><A +HREF="x2124.html" +>Changing user properties</A +></DT +><DT +><A +HREF="x2152.html" +>Removing a user</A +></DT +><DT +><A +HREF="x2166.html" +>Disabling a user temporarily</A +></DT +></DL +></DIV +><BLOCKQUOTE +><P +>“The similarities of sysadmins and drug + dealers: both measure stuff in K's, and both have users.” + (Old, tired computer joke.)</P +></BLOCKQUOTE +><P +> This chapter explains how to create new user accounts, + how to modify the properties of those accounts, and how to remove + the accounts. Different Linux systems have different tools for + doing this.</P +><DIV +CLASS="SECT1" +><H1 +CLASS="SECT1" +><A +NAME="AEN2024" +>What's an account?</A +></H1 +><P +> When a computer is used by many people it is usually + necessary to differentiate between the users, for example, so that + their private files can be kept private. This is important even + if the computer can only be used by a single person at a time, + as with most microcomputers. + + <A +NAME="AEN2027" +HREF="#FTN.AEN2027" +>[1]</A +> + + Thus, each user is given a unique username, and that name is + used to log in. </P +><P +> There's more to a user than just a name, however. An + <I +CLASS="GLOSSTERM" +>account</I +> is all the files, resources, + and information belonging to one user. The term hints at banks, + and in a commercial system each account usually has some money + attached to it, and that money vanishes at different speeds + depending on how much the user stresses the system. For example, + disk space might have a price per megabyte and day, and processing + time might have a price per second. </P +></DIV +></DIV +><H3 +>Notes</H3 +><TABLE +BORDER="0" +CLASS="FOOTNOTES" +WIDTH="100%" +><TR +><TD +ALIGN="LEFT" +VALIGN="TOP" +WIDTH="5%" +><A +NAME="FTN.AEN2027" +HREF="c2018.html#AEN2027" +>[1]</A +></TD +><TD +ALIGN="LEFT" +VALIGN="TOP" +WIDTH="95%" +><P +>It might be quite embarrassing if my + sister could read my love letters.</P +></TD +></TR +></TABLE +><DIV +CLASS="NAVFOOTER" +><HR +ALIGN="LEFT" +WIDTH="100%"><TABLE +WIDTH="100%" +BORDER="0" +CELLPADDING="0" +CELLSPACING="0" +><TR +><TD +WIDTH="33%" +ALIGN="left" +VALIGN="top" +><A +HREF="x2008.html" +>Prev</A +></TD +><TD +WIDTH="34%" +ALIGN="center" +VALIGN="top" +><A +HREF="book1.html" +>Home</A +></TD +><TD +WIDTH="33%" +ALIGN="right" +VALIGN="top" +><A +HREF="x2031.html" +>Next</A +></TD +></TR +><TR +><TD +WIDTH="33%" +ALIGN="left" +VALIGN="top" +>Shell startup</TD +><TD +WIDTH="34%" +ALIGN="center" +VALIGN="top" +> </TD +><TD +WIDTH="33%" +ALIGN="right" +VALIGN="top" +>Creating a user</TD +></TR +></TABLE +></DIV +></BODY +></HTML +>
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